Delphine GALOU - Contralto

Born in Paris, additionally to her studies of philosophy at the Sorbonne, she also studied the piano and singing. In 2004, she was selected "Discovery of the Year" by the French Association for the Promotion of Young Artists ADAMI.

She has performed at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Angers Nantes Opéra, Opéra de Montpellier, Royal Opera House London, Theater St Gallen, Theater Basel, Handel Festival in Karlsruhe, Schwetzingen Festival, Staatsoper Berlin, Theater an der Wien and the Maggio Musicale in Firenze.

As a concert soloist, she is a regular guest of the Beaune Baroque Festival where she was acclaimed in Rinaldo and Alessandro by Handel, Semiramide by Porpora, Juditha triumphans and Orlando furioso by Vivaldi and, in 2013, in L’incoronazione di Dario (Vivaldi again). This season was highlighted by her US debut at the Lincoln Center in New York in Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo with Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm. She has also performed meanwhile with Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, Les Ambassadeurs and toured a recital program with Les Talens Lyriques (around the bliblical theme of Juditha triumphans).

During the 2015/16 season she sang Stabat Mater by Pergolesi with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala in Milano, Mass in b minor by Bach with the Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai di Torino, The Messiah by Handel in Basilea with La Cetra di Marconi, Belshazzar, Alcina and Johannes Passion with the Accademia Bizantina and Matthäuspassion with the Holland Baroque Society.

Among her recent engagements are productions of Orlando (Medoro) at Opernhaus in Zurich, L’Orfeo (La Musica) at Opéra de Lausanne. She received great acclaims in Belshazzar in Salzburg, Beaune and Bruges with the Accademia Bizantina, Juditha Triumphans in Bruxelles and London with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, as well as in concert with the Orchestra Haydn in Bolzano.

Her projects include L’incoronazione di Dario at Teatro Regio in Torino, Rinaldo (Goffredo) with the Kam- merorchester Basel, Giulio Cesare (Cornelia) during a tour with the Accademia Bizantina and L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Ottone) in Zürich.